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Futuristic Leadership Principles
The concept of a pack leader is not uniquely human. All mammals that run in packs have it. In the wild, or in our own barbarian past, the leader applies despotic control over the other individuals. At the same time, without the sympathy of others, pack leaders are prone to being betrayed.
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A Soujourne in the Forest: A Fiction
A friend shared a first attempt at drawing something "dark". Correspondingly, I employed it as inspiration in my first attempt to write something "dark" as well.
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Pivoting
When choosing what you want to have in life, be ready to move and adapt to reality. It is as important to have a destination as it is to have the flexibility to mold your approach to changing circumstances.
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Mental Calibration for the Unforeseen
When the unforeseen and negative hits us, we often default to panic. But if we train ourselves to react differently, drilling our nervous system for a better response, we will be able to address situations in a calmer state of mind, and make better decisions.
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Holding Still
From silence to meditation practices, the road to inner power needs nothing else but your conscious attention.
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To Each Their Own Ability
Appreciating people should not only be about admiring their talents but also respecting what they choose to do with them. Irrespective of what we would do in another person's position, the best we can do is learn from them and develop our power to change the world.
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Preparing for Resilience
Most things in our lives will not go exactly according to plan. Sometimes shit will hit the fan. You can react with panic, or you can plan and rehearse to react differently in unforeseen circumstances.
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When The Taxman Comes Knocking
There is a wrong and a right way to relate to the taxman. Do it wrong, and you might end up in prison. Do it right, and he becomes your best friend.
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Garden of Taxes
A basic illustration of the hierarchy of taxes can make you more easily understand how you can avoid problems and get more deductions.
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Basic Tax Terms
Understanding a few basic concepts used in business and taxes can put you on the right side of the law and even help you get more deductions.
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Taxation Complexity Benefits You
Taxes and the way they work may seem daunting to you. But the truth is that, as long as you follow the rules and learn the basic principles of taxation and the legal tools available to you, the system can benefit you.
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The Ultimate Choice
The ultimate choice can be summarized as choosing between poverty and riches. Read more and you'll discover why.
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Growing Independently
We can better ourselves and reach our goals without waiting for anyone to come and tell us what to do. Here are a few starting tips and thoughts on how to go about doing so.
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Financial Freedom for Beginners
Financial Freedom represents the point where you can relax and finally use your time for what truly matters to you instead of running on a hamster wheel month after month.
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Make Peace with Uncertainty
If you jump into investing without thinking, you are committing suicide. If you wait for certainty, you might not do anything of worth. An investor should make peace with uncertainty and prepare for it.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine before Samuel Beckett
The two great writers of proto-modernism and late modernism, and their flagship works give us something to aspire to.
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Financial Sovereignty
Financial sovereignty means that, within legal constraints, you get to choose where the money you earn goes. To do this to the best of your ability requires some effort.
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The Power of Writing Fiction
Fiction has the power to teach. The power to help the reader remember lessons organically. But it also has the power to transform the writer, to improve himself.
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That Book Won't Write Itself
The two most great blockages anyone who truly loves writing has regarding getting their novel started and completed are, first, relating the process to the outcome, and second, the possibility having their work have a negative reception.
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From Arrogance to Patience
When you have the habit of arrogantly second-guessing anything that is said to you, you deprive yourself and others of learning more, and of developing a more pleasing relationship with each other.
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Walking on Both Sides of the River
We think we must choose between a dreaming reality and a practical one. Is it true, though?
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Dreaming and Remembrance
As the old cliche goes, we spend a third of our lives sleeping, which means it is somewhat important to us. Sleep has a biological purpose and many have acknowledged its psychological importance.
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Trading in the Bad for the Good
To get what you want, you need to use the limited time available to you toward that goal. The way around this obstacle begins by prioritizing. Everyone says that. But there is a next step that people seldom use. That trick is actively trading in the bad for the good.
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A Year of Fitness Discipline
When it comes to physical fitness, desiring results before they are due can lead to either injury, frustration, or both. The key to getting there is to stick to a plan that is well within your capacity but which still requires effort and focus.
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Sleep As a Prioriy
For those of us who have had trouble with sleep for years or decades, I believe nothing short of an exacting plan of action will do to correct the situation. The goal is to develop the skill of falling asleep and sleeping soundly.
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Rethinking Your Future Now
We are used to being told there are two ways of going about making decisions: either live for the moment or live for the future. Instead, we can start thinking of the present as our future, and pay attention to what our unconscious tells us through our physical sensations.
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Writing More is Always a Pleasure
Changing the way you approach your sensations can make it easier and even a pleasurable experience to write more, and write better.
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My Life is Non-Negotiable
Those of us who acknowledge a fire of rebellion against the chains of servitude, a fire that will not be put out, must seek to fight for consistency in a system designed to tie you down, with hordes of people convincing you slavery is normalcy.
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The Four Pillars of Health
Experience has by now told us what the main pillars of a healthy human existence are: sleep, hydration, physical activity, and attention. In this article, we explore why they are important and share an approach to balancing them.
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Succeeding as a Total Man
The journey to total manhood starts with one step at a time. Leaps required build-up, and it all starts with the right mindset.
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Natural Romance
Being present and aware, knowing how to listen and speak kindly, lead to an ideal evening.
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How I Started Writing Every Day
For those of us who not only read but feel the urge to write, a lack of focus or fear of judgment can stop us from writing what we dream of. I hope that sharing a story of change may help any reader get over their doubts and start to write.
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Doing Instead of Worrying
Each moment we live requires a decision as to what we do in that very same instant. If only we realized that even worrying is something we decide, and that we can instead use that time and energy to focus on the solution to our problems, our lives would change dramatically.
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Silence: Balancing the Mind
Silence can be a kind of self-therapy, and it can also fulfill the role of regulating and improving interpersonal relations.
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The Modern Nihilist 002: Dealing with Reality
To benefit as much as we can from the world, it is important that we learn to grasp it as it is, to learn to take what it gives us with a smile, and to discern what it is we want from it.
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#001 Introduction to Modern Nihilism
An introduction to what I call Modern Nihilism, beyond the stoics, beyond materialism and idealism, and even beyond Nietzsche.
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Across the Twilight Door 00001: "The Door Opens"
Ruby, whose ninth birthday is tomorrow, goes out to play with the old stray cat in her neighborhood. She's in for a magical surprise.
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Poem 3: Down crumbles the world
English-structure sonnet no. 3 in iambic pentameter
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Poem 2: A Hallowed Golden Shell
A second poem, an English sonnet in iambic pentameter
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Poem 1: Weighing time
A first exercise, a first study, in the art of writing sonnets. Here, I follow the structure of an English or Shakespearean sonnet in imabic pentameters.
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Seven Best Mark Twain Quotes
The following are seven of the best quotes from different works by Mark Twain.
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Anger is Silent
Whether it is your own anger or that of someone close to you, we all tend to bottle it up. How can we distinguish between the right and wrong actions to take when your loved ones are angry? How can we best communicate?
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The Ambulance of the Future
When the time to die comes, we all wish we could be healthy again and share more time with our loved ones. Society has taught us to accept death as inevitable. But what if science could offer us something more?
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Remedial Versus Generative Change
When encountering a situation you wish to change, there are two ways of trying to initiate change. You either focus on correcting what you do not like, or you put all your energy into generating new behaviors.
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Non-Scientific Versus Scientific Thinking
Although many people think of science as the province of experts, the scientific way of thinking is a method that can be used by anyone independently and often against the opinions of experts. Here, we go over the way in which this works.
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The Best Answer
Finding the solution to any problem often requires shifting your position, changing your perspective, and allowing for more than you could initially imagined to be possible.
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The Astonishing Power of Sleep
In our second installation of the Immortality series of articles, we discuss how good and plentiful sleep boosts your system, and how lack of sleep can lead down the road of misery, madness, and the early onset of old age.
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Here, we get to the grain of how and why people feel the way they do about immortality. People express different attitudes and opinions when talking about it even as they secretly desire it.
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How to Write Like Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
In this article, we explore the reasons why Pride and Prejudice stands out among all of Jane Austen's novels. We will shortly see how it embodies the best of the classical and modern literary worlds.
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How Can I Find My Passion?
This hub is all about leveraging your desires to create a life full of passion. You will learn that what matters is knowing what you want, and then deciding how you can make that a reality. The road you take is defined by what you want.
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The Road to Wealth and Abundance
This hub is all about how going from poor to rich starts with changing what you believe and ends with improving what you do. You will understand why people feel stuck and scared. And you will learn to exceed expectations, and aim for a better and wealthy life.
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What Should I Read
This hub is all about how you can leverage your interest in reading to become the person you want to be. The way to go about this is to select the books that the people you admire have been most affected by. If you cannot think of such a person right off the bat, then your first job is to find them.